Paul Auster Quotes
I was extremely shy. And I simply didn't know how to go about it. It seemed a lot easier to write than to make films. All I needed was a pencil and a piece of paper, whereas filmmaking was something I had no access to.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
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I'm not a one-issue person.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
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If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
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Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.
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Do we want an Attorney General who will play politics with the law, play politics with the court and just play politics with international conventions designed to protect our troops? I do not want to play that kind of politics. I am going to vote against Alberto Gonzales.
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Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old.
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Social media is key to promoting the editorial posts on my website.
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I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.
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I think I have a God complex, and I like moving mountains and writing stories that affect entire worlds, and it's a bit hard to do that in a contemporary setting because you have reality intruding. Whereas, when you set your own reality, you can make up your own rules and do whatever you like.
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Human nature is weak.
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I was extremely shy. And I simply didn't know how to go about it. It seemed a lot easier to write than to make films. All I needed was a pencil and a piece of paper, whereas filmmaking was something I had no access to.
